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Really GIB?

#1 User is offline   eagles123 

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Posted 2015-November-15, 09:19


"definitely that's what I like to play when I'm playing standard - I want to be able to bid diamonds because bidding good suits is important in bridge" - Meckstroth's opinion on weak 2 diamond
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Posted 2015-November-15, 09:32

Obviously you could have avoided this by bidding 3C. You should know that takeout doubles are uncommon so GIB is not prepared for them.
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Posted 2015-November-15, 10:11

The explanation is -9 pts talk about gross underbid. Playing Lebenoshl has easy 3S bid.Slam is possible from Gib's point of views.
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Posted 2015-November-15, 11:39

Usually GIB's problem is cuebidding with marginal values. I will admit to being surprised here, that with full values for a cuebid, it can't even find a jump raise.

I did not learn Lebensohl the way Steve describes it, with a jump advance being a game force. But, I don't seem to still have the Mike Lawrence pamphlet on Lebensohl that I learned from many years ago, and BridgeBum agrees with you, so perhaps that's now the more common treatment.
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Posted 2015-November-15, 13:34

Yes cue better 3S should be 5 cards.
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